Howdy guys kirk and Jason here with kirk giordano plastering, today I just want to show you a quick
thing on caulking because we're doing some work on this property and the owner says kirk,
can you take care of this, he had you know it's a old building so he had the stucco coming off right
here or buckling what i did was i just scraped off the buckle where it's normal 100 years old,
it's gonna settle so i scraped that off and his question was, he said well kirk, i watched a lot
of your videos and you used this mesh tape, I said well technically it's the mesh tape is when we're
doing a base coat we let the base coat set, and then after we moist cure it or hydrate the walls
they tend to crack, so in order for the finish coat not to crack we put this on the crack but for this
i wouldn't do it he says well they did it here i said i can see that man i could see they did it
there you didn't have to tell me that but when you put fiber mesh tape on something like this
and then you put stucco over it now you've got a quarter inch over your existing wall so don't
do that and then i can see the caulking they use here there's a caulking here with no sand in it it
has no sand in it when you trowel it down it's going to leave this really ugly appearance, so
you don't need fiber glass mesh tape for a crack guys what you get is find a caulking that has
sand in it this Mor-flex it's m-o-r-f-l-e-x-x it's always got to have a cute or sexy name to it
that's where the double x. it's like where'd that come from, anyway, the Mor-flex has got
stucco sand in it if you guys think well i can get tile grout caulking, tile grout it has sand and that
sand is too fine, it won't match this stucco sand that means you pay a lot for sand guys,
but anyway i'll show you how we did it i cleaned this out i took a wire brush and i
went over it to clean all the dust dirt grime off because nothing adheres to dust dirt and grime
and now what i'm going to do is show you a quick thing guys all right let's see um what i want to
do is i want to fill this crack up and if you guys are going to do this you want to fill the
crack you want to get it in there deep deep deep deep deep deep deep get it in there deep and if it
splatters around that's okay and because they did a lot of goofy stuff here i'm gonna put some extra
the idea is this caulking here will match the caulking they have i'm just going to go ahead
and get gung-ho and put a whole bunch because if i put stucco here what happens i'm getting ready
to do some stucco it didn't take me a second to just put the stucco here hit it like that
and say that's a wrap guys that's good but what'll happen in say
six months this building's gonna settle it's gonna rain and that lifts the building and when it
breathes or uh exhales it's gonna recrack this more flex or any kind of caulking you get they
also make Quick-Crete with stucco sand in it so the Quikrete is just as good as this, i just
happen to have this on the truck, so we put this on here and you say well that doesn't match either
it's close to it with the stucco sand all you need is a green sponge float and these green
sponge floats guys they got these at home depot lowes and most hardware stores put a little bit
of water on and get some of that water out you don't need that much water and you take this and
just like you would stucco, your feather it in, bring it down, bring it up, here tap it and go in circles
now that is flush and true to the wall instead of this big bulge right here this
it doesn't look pretty guys and it's the front of the building so if you're going to do it guys
do it right if i want to make it a little extra texture i can do the patty cake treatment but
as a rule, don't do that with stucco guys because that'll crack, anyway you see that
that, that's done and it's true with the plane right here or it's not bulging past like this one
and again that caulking i just use Mor-flex or Quikrete q-u-i-k-r-e-t-e like concrete, Quick-Crete
also has sand in it and they go they sell them at home depot, use that do this and boom you're
done guys and now that that matches what you have and it won't re-crack at least not for a few years
maybe 10 if you're lucky, anyway my name is kirk i'm with kirk giordano plastering, Jason
on the camera we thank you guys for watching and as usual see you guys on the next one.
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